Retinitus
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Retinitus Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Dolichopodidae |
Subfamily: | Parathalassiinae |
Genus: | †Retinitus Negrobov, 1978[1] |
Species: | †R. nervosus
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Binomial name | |
†Retinitus nervosus |
Retinitus is an extinct genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains only one species, Retinitus nervosus, from the Upper Cretaceous of the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia. The generic name comes from "retinite" (fossil resin), and the specific name comes from the Latin word nervus.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Negrobov, O. P. (1978). Мухи надсемейства Empididoidea (Diptera) из мелового ретинита Северной Сибири [Flies of the Superfamily Empidioidea (Diptera) from Cretaceous Retinite in Northern Siberia]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 1978 (2): 81–90. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-28. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
Evenhuis, N.L. (2 Apr 2014). "Family Dolichopodidae". Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) website. 2.0.
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